Best Family Board Games of All Time - Board Game Geek Rearranged

0:00 here's a list of top family games as voted on Board Game Geek it disgusts me so in this video we're going to take a look at this list that well doesn't work no we're going to make it better we're going to make it the way it should be and we're going to rearrange these games and create the top 10 family games that you should check out and then tell you why you should check out these games but what is a family game Yannis first of all family game is something that you could play at all ages almost yeah all generations it doesn't take too much time it's not toour game and the third thing is complexity the game should be Max two out of five on the BG complexity right right after this definition there's one game that needs to go these are from 1 to 10 and then from 11 to 20 ordered in the correct order and the game we have to throw out at the beginning is number one bye-bye it's quite heavy not easy to get to the table and it takes 2 hours to play how is it number one family game sorry was I meant was so this absolutely inspired the list it doesn't make sense it's number one for us so let's make the list how it should be we're going to just rank one copy of each game series for example there's two cruise let's just leave the highest rated one right so throw that one out so we made our task a little bit easier but now let's go on to the games and the actual ranking elderly go first thanks thanks boy k k

1:31 gadia is a game that is super simple quick with simple rules and yet fun absolutely it is in this game you're building your terrain of different mountains Plains Lakes forests and on your turn you just pick that one tile and one animal that comes with a tile and then you add those to your land and then refill and the next player goes one by one and you're trying to score the points for terrains and for Animals quick game really nice deserves to be in top 10 for me goes El Dorado the Quest for El Dorado is a race game which means the winner of this game will be whoever moves his meeple to the end of that track and it's a deck building game which means we all have a small deck of cards that we will play and get new cards as the game goes by all you do in your turn is play cards to move or to buy new cards definitely great if you want to try deck building which is one of the if not the best por gaming mechanism out there it's the best I've played with my kids I've played with just grown-ups it's a fantastic game also like a deck building in this case back building game we are creating different uh potions and we're hoping that our cauldron is not going to explode because it's a push lot game you're drawing little ingredients out of the bag but if you pull out too many of the white ones it's going to but you can stop any time you want one part of the game is pulling out tokens the other part is buying and placing new tokens into the bag so you're in charge of your own destiny it's really really fun it's intriguing it's definitely the best family game there is so I'm glad we're doing this so you're placing it up there

3:01 I want to place it up there sure I'm fine with that you are fine with that thank you for watching that's all I wanted out of this video see you next time when we're ranking your favorite chess pieces what I didn't say is I'm fine with that for now good family why not course no why not I'll tell you why not it's expensive it is expensive but it's very accessible it's very fun that's why I'll place it at the bottom cuz it is expensive because it's a wooden board handcrafted usually or laser crafted but if you can get your hands on it it's a lovely family game that everybody can play you flick discs and you want to try to hit the center you try to flick out discs of others away it's just silly fun once I finish game of this I want to go one another game just one more game okay this is the last one unless I lose then I have to play one more uh tick ride Legacy tick generally is a great family game Legacy takes it to the next level if you ever wanted to play a legacy game your family that's the one to go for what is a legacy game it's something that changes from game to game you're going to play stickers you're going to rip cards apart you're going to do all kinds of interesting things that You' never thought are possible in a board game at the end of the day your copy of ticket ride will be absolutely unique from everybody else's and the base of the ticker ride is that you're collecting cards to play them to place your trains on the board and score points for those it's great it's fun it's very accessible I loved it this is I think the most difficult game we're going to pick so I'm going to place it here because it's

4:32 a bit more difficult these ones but I love it heat is racing game and you try to not heat up too much but you have to heat up to be fast push your card to limit at the right moment so it's also a card game where you secretly play out cards that will be your movement points and you try to move as fast as possible but there are Corners so you have to slow down at right time so you have to gear down at the right time and if you don't then you have to pay with heat and if you overheat then you you don't take the corner and you spin out it's a great great way how to show off racing in a board game form be warned this one goes for the people who can handle a bit more rules on the difficult side yet great game add Sky Team here okay I think I already did it with the height of the qua hey up there Sky team is a two-player family game in this game you work together trying to fly and then land the plane first thing is we each all our Dice and place them one by one on the board without speaking cuz turns out I guess that's what pilots do they just don't speak to each other I always imagine it's like you have to make decisions instinctively so you don't have time to talk you just have to push the right buttons cuz you know you both Pilots you you know what you're doing ton of levels and rules added as you play so there's a lot of replayability for this little two-player game if you're looking for a co-op game for two players we quite simple rules actually at First that's a great game I can easily rank them which is a better game it's more difficult to which is a

6:04 better family game cuz the definition is really important so I'll take seven wonders yeah and I place them here right here spot for Seven Wonders Seven Wonders is a drafting game one of the first ones that ever did it and drafting means that you have choice of cards at the beginning of round you take one card and add it to your Tableau to your property is it a French word I'm assuming I don't know it is now and these cards that you draft and take and your property uh gives you resources and money to buy other more powerful cards and you just check who at the end of the game will have built the best Civilization by dropping these cards all you do is take a card yeah simple simple simple and three to seven players can play so a big family can join in and everyone plays at the same time so no need to wait for anybody unless yeah unless you oppose to that Clank is a deck building game where we each have a character that is going deep underground to steal an artifact from a dragon and get out before the dragon eats you a lot of cards you play will make noise and that noise might hurt you at some point in the game if you hurt enough you lose zero points nothing so you have to get in and get out before you die and again the previously mentioned de Builder D Builder is such an just satisfying mechanism that families will really really enjoy I can feel a a lashback coming out like oh these guys only rank deck builders yes we do we threw AR out that's a deck builder so it doesn't get last one that will finish this defining list so number one that we're going to eliminate for the last spot is harmonies harmonies

7:36 is a game where you collect trains and animals and all the animals like specific places to live for example two planes next to a mountain really really good game I'm not as excited as I think I am about other games okay how about Scout then Scout is a wonderful wonderful uh game trick taking game trick taking game yeah if players around you are capable of it definitely try this one I think it's a bit too complicated our threshold of complexity exactly but I think it's a bit too fiddly rules wise but like you said fantastic game with similar arguments I'll place this one out I love this game it's one of my favorites of all time cuz you all play in single team and you have tasks that for example we have to play out cards so you would pick up the pile if I play a green card then everybody needs to play green card and the one with the highest number will pick it up and everybody has to be like on the same wavelength have to figure out how we can make sure you pick up that exact card and if somebody messes up everybody messes up there's a lot of pressure it's a great game just not a family game I'll take this one out everdale is a tableau building game take a people place it on the board get resources for that and then use these resources to play out cards and these cards will generate resources give you special powers and actions to make your civilization to blow cooler and cooler a really neat little game just uh really complex especially if you're not a native speaker then it's kind of out but it is a gorgeous gorgeous game I'd say it's the most beautiful game on this list as simple game and it definitely could go

9:07 as the 11th game I guess as well is a game where you have tiles in the middle of the board and you can just draft them take them unfortunately other people probably will want the same tiles then you use these tiles to place them on your board and score points for that it's fun it's really good just yeah Will eliminate because of the theme there's none so these are the two finalists for uh the top well theme wise wingspan for sure wingspan yeah Birds we have games already similar to Splender duel here and wingspan I think or is an original even though it's quite comp complex spender dual the game we're throwing out yet considering for the top is a gem collecting game essentially collect gems that you exchange for cards that help you win the game they will have either powers or with points right it's really cool two player game yeah look what's here so in this game you just pick an action that you want to do you pick this one which is play Birds you take birds and place them if you can or you take this action and you get uh food for these birds so the action selection is quite easy but then all these birds have powers SP to BL them how they score points there's lots into it but it's a great family game especially if you can get it in your native language so this is how we feel like a board game Geeks family list should look like at least from the 20 games that they provide and I hope you know know which games you should try so make sure to comment down below how you think the top 10 family games list should look like also maybe you should consider supporting our channel so we can do more videos that you disagree with see you next time bye